Hi All,
I've just completed Lesson 1. If someone could have a review and let me know how I went, if I should redo anything, and which exercises I should be doing as warm ups as I move onto the 250 Box Challenge and Lesson 2, that would be greatly appreciated.
I'm new to Imgur so if I've uploaded this incorrectly, please let me know.
Regards,
Mathew
Hi Mathew,
Welcome to Draw a Box!
I've checked your submission,
Before starting the review I wanna advice you to take some time to organize your submission on imgur, it really helps the one reviewing it and you because people will be more likely to check it out if it's organized.
Now, on to the actual review: Your lines are pretty confident over the lesson, which is good because people tend to get them more wobbly during the box section. However, I do see that in some of your boxes, your lines are not reaching the corners, don't worry about overshooting your lines for now, your main priority should be to make them as confident as possible, accuracy comes with time with practice.
Your ellipses seem to get better as you progress through the lesson, a few recommendations would be to only go through them twice since more than that makes them look a little messy, and take your time with the ghosting method, it will make them look more confident.
In the boxes exercises the perspective part it's good considering this is lesson 1, what I think it's lacking a little more is in your lines. Adding to what I've already said earlier, take your time ghosting your lines, remember that a box it's just an organized group of lines, so if you can make some confident lines, you can make a confident box.
This is your first lesson, so it's okey that you used blue ink, though I advice you do the next of this course with black fineliners as it is recommended, not only because that is the way it is intended, but also because you will get more chances of getting feedback if you do it that way.
I'm gonna mark this lesson as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Now comes the 250 Box Challenge, It's not that hard, just scary. This challenge it's all about two things: constancy and determination. Don't try to rush through the challenge, take your time and try to make the most of every box. Try to do it regularly, if you can daily, go for it! I started it out by doing 10 boxes a day (5 boxes it's my personal best amount for each page, though don't do more than 6) and when I got the hang of it I did 15, and then continued like that up to the end. Remember, slow and steady.
Use all this boxs to practice your line confidence! Don't feel down if you don't do them perfectly at the beginning, if you learn from your mistakes and push through, you will improve.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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